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Re: perl versions
- To: Bharat Mediratta <bmediratta@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: perl versions
- From: "Seth M. Landsman" <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 23:53:54 -0500
- Cc: "'owner-pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <owner-pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "'Alan Harder'" <Alan.Harder@Corp>, "'pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- In-reply-to: <A01F6411CF8BD11183DA00805F57F52C0762@EXCHANGE>; from Bharat Mediratta on Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 06:41:17PM -0800
- References: <A01F6411CF8BD11183DA00805F57F52C0762@EXCHANGE>
On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 06:41:17PM -0800, Bharat Mediratta wrote:
> > I've done a little testing and I think I've figured out why Bharat did
> the
> > whole "only certified for perl5.003" thing.. (bharat, maybe some more
> > historical info is in order?)
>
> Alan, I believe all you have to do is to compile up the 5.004 libraries
> and
> stick them in the right place under the lib directory and all will work
> fine.
> I didn't do this because I was hearing some bug reports about problems
> under
> 5.004 that I couldn'r reproduce under 5.003 so I was nervous about
> releasing
> it that way. If somebody would do some comprehensive testing, we could
> move
> forward with support for the newer versions of Perl.
What type of comprehensive testing is necessary? I've happily
been beating on it for over a week without issue under 5.004_04. I'd be
happy to do more if it'll help push it through ...
-Seth
--
"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion"